Publications

The Double Bind of Precarious Work: Creating Need and Undermining Support

Sociological Science

Articles Job Quality

The prevalence and consequences of punitive time and attendance policies in the food and retail industries

Community, Work & Family

Articles Enforcement / Labor Standards / Scheduling

Fair Workweek Laws in the U.S.: An Appraisal of Intended and Unintended Consequences

Science Advances

Articles Enforcement / Labor Standards / Paid Sick Leave

Points-Based Attendance Systems Associated With Presenteeism Despite Paid Sick Leave Protections

Health Affairs

Parents’ precarious work schedules and children’s asthma management

BMC Public Health

Articles Carework / Family / Scheduling

Work Schedule Instability and the Production of Parental Stress and Parenting Time

Social Service Review

Articles Job Quality / Unions

Direct Experience with Poor Working Conditions and Partisans’ Labor Policy Preferences

Public Opinion Quarterly

Articles Firms / Gender / Inequality / Scheduling

Do Transgender and Non-Binary Workers in the Retail and Service Sectors Have Lower Quality Jobs than their Cisgender Counterparts?

Social Problems

Articles Firms / Labor Standards / Paid Sick Leave

Beyond Borders: Does Firm-Level Exposure to State and Local Paid Sick Leave Mandates Lead to Policy Diffusion?

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

2025

Articles Firms / Health / Job Quality

The Limits of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance for Hourly Service-Sector Workers

JAMA Health Forum

Articles Labor Standards / Scheduling / Technology

Regulating Algorithmic Management: A Multi-Stakeholder Study of Challenges in Aligning Software and the Law for Workplace Scheduling

FAccT ’25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Articles Mobility / Technology

New Technology, Older Workers: How Workplace Technology is Associated with Indicators of Job Retention

Journal of Aging & Social Policy

Articles Health / Labor Standards / Paid Sick Leave

Estimating the Impact of State Paid Sick Leave Laws on Worker Outcomes in the U.S. Service Sector, 2017-2023

SSM - Population Health

2024

Articles Methods

Engaging Low-Wage Workers in Health and Wellbeing Survey Research: Strategies from Five Occupational Studies

American Journal of Public Health

Articles Firms / Gender / Inequality / Wages

Between-Firm Sorting and Parenthood Wage Gaps in the US Service Sector

Journal of Marriage and Family

Articles COVID-19 / Health / Household Finances / Safety Net

COVID-19 Employment Shocks and Safety Net Expansion: Health Effects on Displaced Workers

Social Science Research

Articles COVID-19 / Job Quality / Mobility

Labor Market Pathways to Job Upgrading in the Service Sector: Evidence from the ‘Great Resignation’

Research in Social Stratification & Mobility

Parental Exposure to Work Schedule Instability and Child Sleep Quality

Work, Employment, and Society

2023

Articles COVID-19

The Socioeconomic Impacts of Covid-19

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Articles Firms / Gender / Inequality / Wages

The Gender Wage Gap, Between-Firm Inequality, and Devaluation: Testing a New Hypothesis in the Service Sector

Work and Occupations

Articles COVID-19 / Inequality / PFML

Racial/ethnic and Gender Inequities in the Sufficiency of Paid Leave During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from the Service Sector

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Articles COVID-19

Introduction to The Socioeconomic Impacts of Covid-19

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

2022

Articles Family / Scheduling

Parenting without Predictability: Precarious Schedules, Parental Strain, and Work-Life Conflict

RSF Journal of Social Sciences

Articles Family / Inequality / Safety Net

Public Investments and Class Gaps in Parents’ Developmental Expenditures

American Sociological Review

Articles Carework / Family / Scheduling

Who Cares if Parents have Unpredictable Work Schedules? Just-in-Time Work Schedules and Child Care Arrangements

Social Problems

Articles Household Finances / Scheduling

Schedule Unpredictability and the Use of High-Cost Financial Services: The Case of Service Workers

Sociological Science

Articles Inequality / Labor Standards / Paid Sick Leave

Paid Sick Leave Mandates Narrow Gender Gaps in Paid Sick Leave Coverage for Low-Wage Workers

Health Affairs

Articles COVID-19 / Job Quality

The Politics of Prevention: Polarization in How Workplace COVID-19 Safety Practices Shaped the Well-being of Frontline Service Sector Workers

Work and Occupations

Articles Mobility / Scheduling

Uncertain Time: Precarious Schedules and Job Turnover in the U.S. Service Sector

ILR Review

Articles Health / Mobility / Scheduling

Older Workers with Unpredictable Schedules: Implications for Well-being and Job Retention

The Gerontologist

Articles Methods

What’s to Like? Facebook as a Tool for Survey Data Collection

Sociological Methods and Research

Maternal Exposure to Work Schedule Unpredictability and Child Behavior

Journal of Marriage and Family

2021

Family Structure and Financial Investments in Children: Commitment and Resources

Journal of Marriage and Family

Articles Health / Labor Standards / Scheduling

Evaluating the Impacts of the Seattle Secure Scheduling Ordinance

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Class Inequality in Total Parental Time With Children: Evidence from Synthetic Couples

Social Forces

Articles Firms / Paid Sick Leave

Olive Garden’s Expansion Of Paid Sick Leave During COVID-19 Reduced The Share Of Employees Working While Sick

Health Affairs

Articles Health / Household Finances / PFML

The Association of Paid Medical and Caregiving Leave with the Economic Security and Wellbeing of Service Sector Workers

BMC Public Health

Articles COVID-19 / Health / Job Quality

Inequalities at Work and the Toll of COVID-19

Health Affairs

2020

Articles Health / Scheduling

Losing Sleep over Work Scheduling? The Relationship between Work Schedules and Sleep Quality for Service Sector Workers

SSM - Population Health

Articles Firms / Inequality / Scheduling

Race/Ethnic Gaps in Service-Sector Job Quality: Firm Sorting and Organizational Dynamics

American Sociological Review

Articles Household Finances / Scheduling

Hard Times: Routine Schedule Unpredictability and Material Hardship among Service Sector Workers

Social Forces

Articles Inequality / Recession / Scheduling / Unions

Worker Power and Class Polarization in Intra-Year Work Hour Volatility

Social Forces

Articles Labor Standards / Paid Sick Leave

Paid Sick Leave in Washington State: Evidence on Employee Outcomes

American Journal of Public Health

Articles Health / Scheduling

Precarious Work Schedules and Population Health

Health Affairs

2019

Articles Health / Scheduling

Consequences of Routine Schedule Instability for Worker Health and Wellbeing

American Sociological Review

Articles Family / Inequality / Job Quality / Unions

Job Quality and the Educational Gradient in Entry into Marriage and Cohabitation

Demography

Articles Household Finances / Inequality

Bail and Pre-Trial Detention: Contours and Causes of Temporal and County Variation

RSF Journal of the Social Sciences

2018

Articles Family / Household Finances / Inequality

What Explains the Decline in First Marriage in the United States? Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, 1969 to 2013

Journal of Marriage and Family

Income Inequality and Class Divides in Parental Investment

American Sociological Review

2017

Articles Carework / Gender / Inequality

Inequality and Household Labor

Social Forces

Articles Carework / Family / Scheduling

Instability of Work and Care: How Work Schedules Shape Child-Care Arrangements for Parents Working in the Service Sector

Social Service Review

Non-marital and Teen Fertility and Contraception During the Great Recession

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

The Effects of the Great Recession on American Families.

Sociology Compass

2016

The Great Recession and Parental Relationships

Russell Sage Foundation

Articles Family / Gender / Recession

Intimate Partner Violence in the Great Recession

Demography

The Surprising Decline in the Non-Marital Fertility Rate: Description and Preliminary Explanation

Population and Development Review

Articles Household Finances / Inequality

Incarceration and Household Wealth

Demography

2015

Articles Family / Inequality / Recession

Socioeconomic Variation in the Effect of Economic Conditions on Marriage and Nonmarital Fertility in the United States: Evidence From the Great Recession

Demography

Articles Household Finances / Inequality

Incarceration and Black-White Inequality in Homeownership: A State-level Analysis

Social Science Research

Articles Health / Household Finances / Recession

The Economic Crisis and Medical Care Usage

Social Science Quarterly

Articles Family / Household Finances / Recession

The Great Recession, Fertility, and Uncertainty: Evidence from the States

Journal of Marriage and Family

Articles Family / Household Finances

Lessons Learned from Non-Marriage Experiments

Future of Children

2014

Articles Family / Job Quality / Unions

Marrying Ain’t Hard When You Got a Union Card? Labor Union Membership and First Marriage

Social Problems

2013

Articles Family / Gender / Inequality

Eat, Drink, Man, Woman: Gender, Earnings Share, and Household Expenditure in South Africa

Social Forces

The Causal Effect of Father Absence

Annual Review of Sociology

2012

Articles Carework / Family / Gender

Gender Deviance and Household Work: The Role of Occupation

American Journal of Sociology

2011

Articles Family / Household Finances / Inequality

Wealth and the Marital Divide

American Journal of Sociology

Articles Carework / Family / Gender

Market Earnings and Household Work: New Tests of Gender Performance Theory

Journal of Marriage and Family

Financially Fragile Households: Evidence and Implications

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

2009

Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers: From Coercion to Excitement

Insufficient Funds: Savings, Assets, Credit and Banking Among Low-Income Households

2007

New Savings from Old Innovations: Asset Building for the Less Affluent

Financing Low-Income Communities: Models, Obstacles, and Future Directions

H&R Block’s Refund Anticipation Loans: Perilous Profits at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Business Solutions for the Global Poor

2006